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Holmethorpe Avenue, REDHILL, RH1 2LZ

At the junction of Gordon Road and Frenches Road.

Recent development of the former Foxboro Yoxall site, an instrument manufacturer which was based here from 1958 to 1991. After closure, the site remained derelict for many years, before development, partly as an industrial park and partly, in the late 2000s, for housing in an area named Park 25. The name St Anne's Boulevard refers to St Anne's, an imposing building dating from 1884, housing in turn a school, a hospital and finally a County Council run old people's home, which stood to the south of this site. It was demolished in 1987.

Park 25 is a late 2000s development on the former Foxboro Yoxall site. Foxboro Yoxall were an instrument manufacturer which was based here from 1958 to 1991. After closure, the site remained derelict for many years, before development partly as an industrial park and partly for housing, as here. This is Burrage Road.

A unit on Holmethorpe Avenue, in the Holmethorpe Industrial Estate. The level crossing gate on the left is the only remaining evidence of the sidings that connected the British Industrial Sand works, now the site of the Watercolour development, with the London-Brighton railway, a link which operated until the mid 1980s.

Part of The Assembly, a 2012 redevelopment of the former Frenches Road School - see Image for fuller picture. Note the entrance on the left marked "Boys"; the equivalent entrance for girls was directly below.

Prior to the 2005 completion of a new bridge on Ormside Way (see Image), this narrow and low bridge under the London-Brighton railway, turning straight from the residential Frenches Road (visible through the bridge) was the main road access into the Holmethorpe Industrial Estate - hardly suitable.

2012 redevelopment for housing of the former Frenches Road School, built in 1905 to the design of John Moir Kennard (1857-1950). Old maps show the site to have originally been a sand pit. The building later formed part of St Bede's School before the full development of its present Carlton Road site which saw the present building become redundant in around 1990. It then fell into decay, but was grade II listed in 2004 (see www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1391211 ) to offer some protection. Its recent conversion to housing has won awards for the successful restoration of an historic building. For close up of the central section with local council crest, see Image

Part of The Assembly, a 2012 redevelopment of the former Frenches Road School - see Image for fuller picture. See Image for a close up of the crest, that of the original Reigate Borough.